Amazon to Put E-Books on Phones

Gregory T. Huang2/6/09

Seattle-based Amazon is planning to make its Kindle e-books available on mobile phones, according to the New York Times, which cited an Amazon spokesman. Yesterday, Google said it had made 1.5 million books available to read on the iPhone, T-Mobile G1, and other devices. Amazon is expected to roll out a new version of its Kindle e-book reader next week.

Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's National IT Editor and the Editor of Xconomy Boston. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com, call him at 617-252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at @gthuang.